Nov 21 2012
Updated: Winner 1 is Winnie. The book will be coming shortly to you from KA’s assistant. Winners 2 are L, LaurieB, Nancy, and Anya. I’ve emailed you. Thanks everyone. Check back for a new giveaway next week. We’ve reviewed several Kristen Ashley books here at Dear Author and have even posted a guest piece by(…)
Nov 14 2012
We are continuing our somewhat new feature of posting a chapter excerpt and sponsoring a giveaway. This giveaway is for Jill Sorenson’s Aftershock. PW gave the book a starred review. This “disaster romance” opens with an 8.5 earthquake in downtown San Diego. Jill says that there are some interesting race issues that she included in(…)
Nov 13 2012
Avon sponsored a $300 Giftcard to Zappos in celebration of cowboys and Lori Wilde’s upcoming Christmas book. a Rafflecopter giveaway Penguin sponsored a three book bundle of Eden Bradley’s erotic romances. a Rafflecopter giveaway Congratulations to the winners. Come back tomorrow for another Excerpt + Giveaway. Send to Kindle
Nov 8 2012
A lot of people seemed to enjoy the excerpt + giveaway we did for Beth Kery a couple of weeks ago. Berkley contacted me and suggested that readers who enjoyed the Beth Kery and Sylvia Day books may also like the Eden Bradley books. They are re-releasing of Eden Bradley’s three titles: PLEASURE’S EDGE(…)
Nov 1 2012
Avon’s publicity department contacted me and wondered if I would be interested in giving away a gift certificate for cowboy boots in conjunction with promoting Lori Wilde’s A COWBOY FOR CHRISTMAS, which was on sale October 29, 2012 . Heck, yeah, I replied. This is actually the perfect time for you to read a book, all(…)
Oct 17 2012
I read the excerpt of this book in the back of Bound to You, a sexy novella featuring a blind lumberjack (sort of) and a famous movie star, and thought it might be one of the hottest scenes I had read in a long time. I was anxious to read the entire story. The rest certainly(…)
Oct 10 2012
We had three! giveaways last week, if you can believe it. I tried out Rafflecopter, a free service, with the Susanna Kearsley Giveaway and I really love how easy it is so in the future, we’ll be using that service. I mean, look, the widget magically updates with the winner names!! It’s the simple things(…)
Oct 5 2012
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, we have a Princess Bride DVD to Giveaway. Read down to see how to enter. The Princess Bride 25th Anniversary Blu-ray is loaded with special features including the all-new featurette “True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon” which includes brand new interviews with Reiner, Elwes, Wright, Goldman, Christopher Guest (For Your Consideration), Chris Sarandon (Fright Night) and executive producer Norman Lear. Additionally,(…)
Aug 29 2012
WINNERS: From the RITA Best First Book giveaway, Dee F. wins from the group of contemporaries; Amy Kathryn from the historicals; Janet from the paranormals. Check your inboxes! And congratulations to Darynda Jones, who won for First Grave on the Right. ANNOUNCEMENT: I am re-vamping the interview series I do here at Dear Author. For future(…)
Jul 30 2012
Here are the winners of the Pimp My Read contest picked by author Shannon Stacey: The winner of the Nook SimpleTouch with GlowLight is: shutter_red The two runners-up, winning the books are: Just Shireen and Michelle K. Ms. Stacey will be in contact with you. Thanks everyone! Send to Kindle
Jul 26 2012
We were supposed to post the winner of this contest earlier this week. Unfortunately Ms. Stacey is having internet troubles but hopefully we can work something out so that the winner is posted tomorrow or Saturday. Send to Kindle
May 31 2012
Tonight at 8:30 PM ET, I will be participating in a chat with Beatriz Williams and other readers regarding the book “Overseas”. This was organized by Elyssa Papa and Beatriz Williams is giving away a “Kate and Julian” themed gift basket, with the contents hand-selected by the author to a random participant in the chat. (…)
May 22 2012
Updated with the winners: Author: Danielle W Comment: permalink I am so ready for this to be released already! I need to read about the chocoholics :) Author: AnnaPiranha Website: http://www.dyedinthewoolbluestocking.blogspot.com Comment: permalink Oh! Pick me! Of course, if you don’t I’ll just download it anyhow. Author: JL Comment: permalink I would love to win a copy of this! Such a great(…)
May 22 2012
At the beginning of the year, we featured a few posts by publishing “insiders”. Elle Kennedy and her editor, Jesse Feldman, contacted me to see if I would be interested in posting about how Elle’s new Killer Instincts romantic suspense series was acquired. I thought readers would like to follow a book from acquisition to(…)
May 16 2012
Update with winners: Author: Sirius Comment: permalink I actually love well done time travel a lot, would love to win this one :) Author: Ruth (CO) Comment: permalink I am not a fan of time travel so interested in finding out what made this one different. Author: azteclady Website: http://www.HerHandsMyHands.etsy.com Comment: permalink Considering how miserable(…)
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